ON THE MALAYAN AND POLYNESIAN 
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them, they did not bring the names with two trifling or partial ex- 
ceptions. The cocoa-nut is known by a Malayan name in the Po¬ 
lynesian dialect of the. Sandwich Islands, but not in the Marquesas. 
It has the same Malayan name also in the Negro languages of New 
Caledonia and Tanna, but not in the Malieolo. In the New Cale¬ 
donia alone, I find the Malayan name for a yam written ufi. for ubi. 
In the Tanna and Malieolo, these different ones. 
Rice, with all the numerous pulses, and esculent vegetables known 
in the Indian Archipelago, were not found in the islands of the Pa¬ 
cific : and with the exception of the banana and orange, the nume¬ 
rous fruits of that region were wanting. 
The domesticated animals found in the South Sea Islauds were 
only the hog, the dog, and the common fowl. In none of the lan¬ 
guages, either of the brown, or negro races, are the name of these 
animals, Malay, Javanese, or of any other language of the Archipe¬ 
lago, except that of the Marianne Islands, in which is found the Ja¬ 
vanese word manuhe “ a bird” or “ fowl/ 1 the name for the com- 
mon poultry in the Philippine languages. 
Among the most frequent of the domesticated animals of the Ma¬ 
layan Archipelago are the goat, the cat, and the duck, and had a 
communication existed between it and the islands of the Pacific, they 
must, from their hardiness, have been introduced; but they are all 
three wanting. _ 
The absence of Malayan names for both plants and animals, sup¬ 
posing the plants and animals to have been derived from the Indian 
Archipelago, would be the more remarkable from the frequency of 
the same name, for these objects, in the. different Malayan languages 
themselves. Thus, for the domestic dog, the Javanese name is 
found in ten other languages, and the Malay name for the domestic 
hog in forty others. The name for the yam and for the sugar-cane 
is almost as often repeated from one extremity of the Archipelago 
to the other as that of the hog. 
From the absence of Malayan names for plants and animals, and 
the absence of hardy plants and animals that might, in a transit of 
ordinary facility, have been introduced from the Malayan Archipe- 
